The ISO 9001:2026 transition

Standards scope and the Standard Map: plan the ISO 9001:2026 transition. This is part of chapter 8 of the NormaQMS User Guide.

Plan the ISO 9001:2026 transition

Open: Settings > Standard map, then the transition view link above the map. Any member can open it; a narrowed audit room cannot.

The ISO 9001:2026 transition view compares a QMS scope that has adopted ISO 9001:2015 against the 2026 edition, requirement by requirement. It sorts every requirement into six counts:

Count	Meaning
Needs work	No part of the current position carries. Plan these first.
Needs a read	The obligation moved. Someone has to re-read the clause and decide what changes.
Retiring	No longer carried forward. Decide what to do with the records.
Already satisfied	Unchanged, and a live control in this system already answers it.
Unaffected	Unchanged by the new edition. Whether it is satisfied is a separate question.
Outside your scope	Taken out of the declared boundary by a signed applicability decision.

Each row names the clause, what Norma believes changed, the action a quality manager would take, and where that belief came from. Your position on a requirement comes from your signed applicability decisions and the live signal of the module that covers it. Where Norma holds no evidence either way, it says so rather than calling it a gap.

Every comparison is currently marked Provisional, including the ones that say nothing changed: they come from pre-publication reporting on the 2026 revision, not from the published document. Treat the list as a starting point to review, not a finding. Until the comparisons are confirmed against the published standard, ISO 9001:2026 is not offered for adoption under Settings > Standards & scope.

The view is read-only. Opening it does not adopt an edition, change a scope, or touch a record. It does not judge whether your system conforms, set transition dates, or say anything about your certificate: your certification body sets the transition timetable, and certification to the 2026 edition is their decision. When the edition can be adopted, adopting it is an ordinary signed scope baseline revision (above).

If the page reads No transition to show yet, adopt ISO 9001:2015 on a scope baseline first; if it reads No QMS scope yet., create a scope.

In the user guide

This article is part of chapter 8, "Standards scope and the Standard Map", of the NormaQMS User Guide (NORMA-UG-001), which is under Help > User guide. Chapter numbers in the text refer to that guide. The same chapter also covers: Create or revise a QMS scope; Applicability is a controlled decision; Read the Standard Map; Record a control decision.